e.
In order to place statements of nuclear weapons in perspective,
high-level statements and guidance should (a) enntinue to emphasize U.S.
dedication to establishing the conditions of an enduring peace, including
the adnption of genuine safeguarded disarament, (b) stress U.S. determination, pending reduction in international tensions, to keep its armed
strength, including nuclear weapons, at a level sufficient to deter any
would-be aggressor, «~~ > (c) should point out that our muclear weapons,
together with those of our Allies, have rightly been called the defense
shield of the free world, and (d) emphasize the substative elements of
U.S. peaceful uses of atomic energy programse
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